The first Big Picture Day happened on Saturday at the LimeWharf space in Vyner Street – it was an unconference/hackday/jam to work through stuff about improving unconferences/hackdays/jams. 0. This is a pattern that’s grown out of the #ukgovcamp community – write a blog post on the day after or as soon as you can, just…
I’ve been through four crowd-funding campaigns myself now. It’s not an experience I would heartily recommend to friends, although I think a lot more learning has been done now about what works. I was, at times, turned into a link-spouting push-marketer of the worst kind, but I also got to do some cool stuff and…
This is a not a very interesting post demonstrating something that’s a bit mind-blowing. I’m writing this in Fargo, the web-based HTML5 outliner from Dave Winer’s new company. It hit version 0.54 today and now includes posting to a wordpress blog. So I’m trying it out. I mean, I’m trying out the wordpress functionality –…
This from the Bromsgrove Messenger in December 1982, I guess. I do mostly remember this production for the thing the reviewer picked up where we repeated 14 pages of the first act because we got lost. I’m pretty sure I was hamming it up appallingly, and I probably was doing a lot of “face acting”…
I’ve heard and read lots of people over the last couple of days telling us what Margaret Thatcher did to harm them and make their lives more difficult. Her sins are then recounted to make it clear how right this person is that it was her fault. But as that well-known “terrorist” Nelson Mandela said…
I spent a day last week at #unschool13 an unconference called by Simon Gough to “explore learning outside school together”. I qualified both as a parent of two young people who’ve had unconventional school experiences and as a witness to the learning powers of unconferences and gatherings like Everything Unplugged and of course #tuttle. All…
Haven’t really got my head on straight since #ukgc13 on Saturday, so many lovely people, so much happened, moved forward, settled into a comfortable space. So here’s my list of blurbages: 0. I miss posterous because it really made it easy to getting people blogging after an event – the follow-up posts have been fewer…
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been at #commscamp13 and #ukgc13 – at each there where plenty of people at the event and away from it who were tweeting using the hashtags – this sort of backchannel has become an important part of the event experience since the early days when people started appearing…
The only people who can possibly not have seen or heard about Amanda Palmer‘s TED Talk from last week yet are those who resist words of wisdom on principle, or perhaps those poor bastards who restrict their internet time to “serious stuff”. If you’re in one of those categories and you read this blog, a)…
Andy Mabbett pointed this out this morning. My resemblance to the late Roger Delgado seems to get creepier as I get older. I’d love to go to this but it’s up in Birmingham and I’m in London. Does anybody have a lloyd-shaped hole in what they’re doing around the weekend of 30th that would…